| wav | Klangdatei / RIFF eine Dateiendung |
| CW | Continuous Wave |
| SW | Short Wave |
| IBW | Ion Bernstein Wave |
| CW | Continuous Wave |
| VSW | Very Short Wave |
| QWA | Quarter Wave Antenna Viertelstab |
| GWP | Gaussian Wave Packet |
| OPW | Orthogonalized Plane Wave |
| SDW | Spin Density Wave |
| DFWM | Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing |
| LWL | Long Wave Laser |
| cdw | Charge Density Wave |
| GOW | Guided Optical Wave |
| SWAG | Shock Wave Generator |
| SWF | Short Wave Fading |
| XSWT | X-ray Standing Wave Technique |
| wav | Wave: Audio-Datei eine Dateiendung |
| USW | Ultra Short Wave |
| VDW | Valley Density Wave |
| LWIR | Long Wave Infrared |
| TWT | Traveling Wave Tube |
| CCW | Coherent Continuous Wave |
| SWR | Standing Wave Ratio |
| SWL | Short Wave Laser / Listener |
| MCDW | MultiChannel Distorted Wave [Modell] |
| NLSE | Non-Linear Schroedinger wave Equation |
| VSWR | Voltage Standing Wave Ratio |
| PBWA | Plasma-Beat-Wave Accelerator |
| SAW | Surface Acoustic Wave [Filter] |
| BWA | Backward Wave Amplifier [engl.] Rückwärtswellenverstärker |
| SCDW | Surface Charge Density Wave |
| LAPW | Linearized Augmented Plane Wave |
| AWE | Advanced Wave Effects [engl.] |
| BWF | Broadcast Wave Format [engl.] Bei Rundfunkanstalten eingesetztes Verschlüsselungsverfahren |
| BWO | Backward Wave Oscillator [engl.] Elektrischer Schwingkreis |
| BWT | Backward Wave Tube [engl.] Rückwärtswellenröhre |
| ACW | Alternative Continuous Wave [engl.] |
| cdw | Continuum Distorted Wave [approximation] |
| APW | Augmented Plane Wave [engl.] |
| CWDM | Coarse Wave Division Multiplex |
| DWBA | Distorted Wave Born Approximation |
| DWIA | Distorted Wave Impulse Approximation |
| ISWL | International Short Wave League |
| ICDW | Incommensurate Charge Density Wave |
| FMCW | Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave |
| GWEN | Ground Wave Emergency Network |
| GTWT | Gridded Traveling Wave Tube |
| ccwp | Close-Coupling Wave-Packet [Methode] |
| GMRT | Giant Meter-wave Radio Telescope |